By Heidi Trautmann

In 2014 the first bust was erected with all the family present, friends and colleagues, the first bust in clay, a public figure in clay just as vulnerable as in person. Read all about the writer, poet and journalist clicking the link

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Then, in 2015 two youngsters drunk and stupid, demolished the sculpture. We were all sad about it, about the demolition but also about the behaviour of the two youths.

Now, two years later, Sevcan Cerkez’ new sculpture of Beni Hakki Hakeri has been erected in the same place, even more beautiful, polished and shining and indestructible this time. Literature cannot be demolished.

Friends and family came forward to bring back memories of this fine man Beni Hakki Hakeri and they thanked Sevcan Cerkez for her beautiful work. HE Mustafa Akıncı lifted the black veil from Sevcan’s sculpture  and thus officially gave it to the public. Perhaps when you pass there and talk to it, ask a question about a problem you have, you might find an answer….. that is what memorials are there for.